ELA+1+Lesson+17

__Topic __ : __The Big Trip__ (Lesson 17) How are ways to travel the same and different? Compare and contrast.

__Common Core Standards __ RL.1.2 Retell stories include key details. and demonstate understanding of their central message or lesson. RL.1.9 Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in the story. RF.1.3c Know fnal -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. L.1.1j Produce and expand simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. W.1.3 Write narrartives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal first to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. 6.1.2 Identify common things that can be considered to be systems (a plant, a transportation system, human beings).

__Suggested Student Objectives __ SW retell story to include events in correct sequence. SW blend and read words with the medial long /e/ sound in both the CV and CVCe patterns. SW blend and read words with the 'ee' and 'ea' vowel pairs. SW blend and read words with the final -ng and -nk blends. SW blend and read words with the -ean and -ink phonograms. SW correctly write questions and statements.

__Suggested Additional Readings: __

__Making the Moose Out of Life__ (Nicholas Oldland)
__Resource Links: __
 * http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=0C9F5AA9-BCA3-4BD0-A00B-F23F67A5FEDF&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US (Transportation, Communication, and the Environment)
 * http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/communities/transportation/preview.weml
 * [] (Away We Go: All About Transportation)

__Activities __ Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate words that follow the medial long /e/ sound in both the CV and CVCe patterns. Students will form that word with letters. Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate words with the 'ee' and 'ea' vowel pairs. Students will form that word with letters. Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate words with the final -ng and -nk blends. Students will form that word with letters. Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate words with the -ean and -ink phonograms. Students will form that word with letters. Write about a trip that you took with your family. Include a topic sentence, details, sequence words and a closing sentence.

__Assessments __ Spelling and Journey's Lesson 17 Weekly assessments. Score writing piece to include a topic sentence with details that support the topic, sequence words and an appropriate closing sentence.

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